With the 2010 World Cup just days away we are all getting ready to cheer on our sides and then boo them when they don’t do as well as they should. We have already established the 7 things we love about the World Cup but there are also quite a few things we don’t love, in fact things we hate. Here are 7.

1. Cheating On A World Scale

On the other side of the flicks, tricks and beautiful freekicks we are bound to see at this World Cup there will be cheating like never seen before. Diving, over the top reactions and hissy fits will be thrown in South Africa and quite frankly it sucks. Culprits to look out for include Didier Drogba and Cristiano Ronaldo.

2. WAG invasion

Normally I wouldn’t complain about our TV screens being filled with a group of pretty girls but during the World Cup it’s different. These made-up scantily clad women who are famous normally for being famous or for dating someone else will occupy our screens, web pages and newspapers. I just don’t see their relevance to anything to do with football or sport or anything else. Do you?

3. A Shambles Of An Opening Ceremony

I know, I know, this was on the list of things we love but what is often funny quickly becomes boring and sad. After watching the YouTube clip of Diana Ross missing that goal 50 times you just feel sorry for her and whichever poor soul had to explain why getting Ross to kick a ball was a good idea.

4. Managers/Players Blaming The Weather For Bad Performances

When supposedly good teams put in poor performances something has to take the blame. Most of the time it’s normally the goalkeeper that gets the brunt of it but on the off chance that all eleven players were rubbish, the climate comes into play. If the tournament is anyway above 20 degrees then its too hot for success and if its anywhere beneath 10 degrees then its too cold to do well. The trick is only to get angry if your team loses and the temperature is somewhere between 11 and 19 degrees, anything above or below and it’s not their fault!

5. The Crappy Songs That Will Fill Our Charts

Every World Cup tournament is accompanied by each country’s pop hit of that summer. Gone are the days of David Baddiel singing as well as he could or John Barnes spitting some hot fire on New Order’s “World In Motion”. We now have to put up with “hits” from the Crazy Frog, Tony Christie (who as he ages looks more and more like a character of Coronation street) and mostly embarrassingly Ant and Dec. Seriously is there no one in the music industry that wants to write a decent song to be played during the competition?

6. England Losing In Another Penalty Shootout

We all know its going to happen, all we can do is wait and hope that it’s a loss to worthy opponents and not someone we hate, like Portugal or worse yet France. With Owen Hargreaves not picked for this World Cup who is going to score our only penalty now? On second thoughts it doesn’t matter, no one cares who scores if we lose.

7. The Fact That You Probably Won’t Be There

The very worst thing about the world cup is the fact with tickets selling out so incredibly quickly and the remaining flight tickets being so expensive chances are you probably won’t be one of the lucky ones that get to go. Not to worry though with all the things on this list why would you want to go anyway?

Da Vinci